SubscriptionsYear: 2026
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On the Ground – Parting Gifts
Keir Starmer got a lot done in his last few weeks. Not that anyone noticed, amid the circus surrounding Nigel Farage and his Clacton battle with a bin.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Pol Roger and Islamophobia
The Spectator boasts that its summer party is the “most sought-after social ticket of the Westminster summer season, bringing together the most senior politicians, journalists, and political aides, alongside the crème de la crème of the arts and media world”.
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Editorial – Take a Sad Song and Make It Better
Albert Camus’ 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus attempts to tackle that great existential of dilemmas we humans find ourselves in: how do we live if we know we will die?
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Letters – August 2026
Submit a letter for consideration about this month’s edition by emailing the Editors: Miss Hardeep Matharu and Mr Peter Jukes on letters@bylinetimes.com
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Andy Burnham Making Shabana Mahmood Chancellor Would Resurrect the Failed Politics of Morgan McSweeney
If the incoming Prime Minister does buckle to media and city pressure not to appoint Ed Miliband as Chancellor it will be an ominous sign of things to come, argues Adam Bienkov
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MPs Bid to End ‘Royal Secrecy’ and Open the Crown Up to Scrutiny
Proposed bill would strip the King and his heirs of their blanket Freedom of Information exemptions — as royal biographer describes a decade of blocked requests and redactions
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Reform Withdrew Sworn Denials from Richard Tice in Good Law Project Data Privacy Case
Reform’s Deputy Leader accused of being “cavalier with the truth” as it withdraws its earlier denials in data privacy case
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‘The BBC’s Ill-Conceived Cuts Sacrifice Journalists In Order To Save Managers’
The BBC is sacking journalists whilst leaving layers of largely superfluous and expensive management in place, argues former BBC reporter Patrick Howse
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